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JOHN McLAU'GHLiN', OF BROO KLYN', NEW YO n19.

. Let-ters Patent No. 66,3751, dated July 2, 1867. i

1'0 ALI WHO IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known thnt I, JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, and State of New York,

have invented a new and useful' flmprovetnentin Registers;" and that the t'cllewing description, taken in cnnnection with the accompanying drawings hereinafter referred to, forms a. full and exact specification ot the same, wherein I have set forth the nature and principles of my said improvements, by n'hi'ch'my invention may be distinguished from all others bf a' similar class, together with, such parts as I claim, and desire to have secured to' me by Letters Patent. i t

The present invention relates to hot-air registers more particularly, although it can he applied to other registers, and the invention consists inthe use of a. sheet or sheetsof wire g mze or netting within thehndy of the registers and across the plane of its openings. for the purpose of'preventing papers oriothcr articles dropping or passing through the register to the fire beloy, vhile no hindrance is given to the heat-ed air passing it-hrough theregi'ster.. In the accompanying plate of drawings my improvement in'registers is illustrated- 2 Figure 1 being a central longitudinal vertical section through the register, and' Figure 2 a. plan or top view of the wire gauze or sheet netting. v

A, in the drewings, represents a register mz de of any of the ordinary constructions or forms. B, a sheet of wire gauze or netting, secured in register A across the same, end just back of its openings 0, this netting netin as a sto to the assae of a er, etc., throu h the re isit-er while at the same time the nsszwe of 5 P P g P P g u i P r:

heated hit is not in the least degree interfered with. i

Having thus described my invention; I claim as-neW anid desire to secure by Letters Putent- The screen B to the register, substantially as n nd for the purpose described. heabove specification of my invention signed by me this 12th day rif March, 1867.

JOHN McLAUGHLIN,

Witnesses:

WM. F. MONAMARA, 3. A.'Snnv1cn. 

